This book offers for the first time a complete scholarly
translation, commentary, and glossary in a modern European language of the
logic section of Ibn Sīnā's (d. 1037 CE) very important compendium al-Najāt
(The Deliverance). The original, written in Arabic, is the product of the
middle period of the most renowned Muslim philosopher and physician, known in
the Latin West as Avicenna. Avicenna's logic system took as its starting point
the Aristotelian and the Peripatetic tradition, but diverged from these in
fascinating and original ways. The system presented by him becaume the standard
reference and focus of further elaboration, debate, and innovation in the
Islamic scholarly tradition, deeply influencing both the 'traditional
religious' sciences (such as theology and law) and the naturalized Greek system
(such as metaphysics). Because the Najāt is both comprehensive and relatively
terse, this translation, which has been the diachronic subject of study in
various madāris and has a number of attached commentaries and glosses, will be
extremely useful to those who do not read Arabic, but who wish to gain an
overview of Avicenna's logic.